WordPress Plugin Templates / Demos
Having ventured into customizing WordPress themes for over one year, John now wants to move up to being a WordPress plugin developer. Okay, John knows how to do stuff in a theme template. And, he has hacked a plugin or two. Now, all he really wants to do is put everything together into a proper plugin of his own, as fast as possible.
Knocking Out A Plugin
What really should be a very simple matter, turns out to be anything but. John really does not have a lifetime to put into this new venture of his. While somewhere on the Web there might be a simple cut and paste approach being offered for plugin development, John H. Gohde sure has not been able to find it.
With A Cut & Paste Approach
In the spirit of sharing his knowledge for free upon which WordPress is being developed, John might as well start out by offering to the public a series of plugin template demos that take a simple and quick cut & pasteapproach to plugin development.
John is a show me kind of guy. Show him something that actually works, and he can usually figure out why. From his perspective, how can anyone possibly learn about how these things work unless the tutorial is presented as a complete package that actually does something remotely useful. John has seen far too many piecemeal approaches that intentionally dragged out the learning process to the point where it became agonizingly painful.
Hey, John doesn’t want to spend months and years becoming a WordPress guru before he is allowed to write his stupid little plugin, and neither should you.
List of Available Plugin Templates / Demos
Plugins can be divided into a dichotomy of Simple and Complex, both of which are quite easy to define. This is John’s own private classification system. John has yet to see anybody else attempt to classify plugins. The end result is that you could easily end up wasting a lot of time learning to write the wrong type of plugin.
Simple Plugin Template Demos
Simple plugins allow bloggers to customize their themes. They never automatically work. A simple plugin requires bloggers to insert special coding into their themes before they receive any benefit from the plugin.
Complex Plugin Templates Demos
A complex plugin is designed to work automatically once a plugin has been activated. These plugins work in the background and require what WordPress calls a hook. Unless a blogger wants to change an option or two, a complex plugin does not require them to do anything to receive a benefit from the plugin.
